Sentences with phrase «best science graduate students»

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Overview: The Good Food Institute (GFI) seeks a graduate (or exceptional undergraduate) student in the social sciences who would like to apply their research skills to the context of consumer acceptance of plant - based and clean meat.

Welsh Liberal Democrats have also increased financial incentives, up to # 20,000 per student, to attract the best graduates into teaching subjects such as maths, chemistry, physics and computer science.

Currently, students are required to pass five Regents exams in high school in order to graduate — one each in English, science, math, as well as the U.S History and the Global Studies and Geography exams.

Financial incentives of up to # 20,000 per student to attract the best graduates into teaching subjects such as maths, chemistry, physics and computer science in Wales, have been announced by Education Secretary Kirsty Williams (Mon 3rd April).

The Program has a long - standing commitment to providing substantive internship opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and post-docs from all fields of science and engineering, as well as law students.

Students interested in applying for the internships must: 1) be full - time undergraduate or graduate students with disabilities who are majoring in science or engineering, 2) have a B average or better, and 3) be a U.S. citizen or have a right - to - workStudents interested in applying for the internships must: 1) be full - time undergraduate or graduate students with disabilities who are majoring in science or engineering, 2) have a B average or better, and 3) be a U.S. citizen or have a right - to - workstudents with disabilities who are majoring in science or engineering, 2) have a B average or better, and 3) be a U.S. citizen or have a right - to - work permit.

NIH examines indicators such as the track record of graduates in academic medicine positions, time to graduation, overall student happiness, how well the program integrates the medical and scientific training, and most importantly, the quality of the scientists and science available to the MD / PhD students; NIH manifests disapproval or approval of a program by decreasing, increasing, or maintaining the number of funded trainee positions at that institution.

The research team was led by graduate student Yi Peng and associate professor of physics Yilong Han, both of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as well as Arjun Yodh, director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Penn's School of Arts & Sciences.

«We wanted to know how these beetles recolonize within burn units as well as how the neighborhood in which a burn unit occurs affects recolonization rates,» said Jessie Mutz, an FSU graduate student in the Department of Biological Science and the study's lead author.

Co-authors are Ok - Kyung Park, a visiting scholar at Rice and a postdoctoral researcher at Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea; Rice postdoctoral researchers Almaz Jalilov and Rodrigo Villegas Salvatierra and graduate students Luong Xuan Duy, Sandhya Susarla and Jarin Joyner; Rice alumnus Sehmus Ozden, now a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory; Robert Vajtai, a senior faculty fellow at Rice; Jun Lou, a Rice professor of materials science and nanoengineering; and James Tour, Rice's T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering; and Professor Douglas Galvão of the State University of Campinas.

«Students can start by doing something as small scale as organizing graduate seminar groups as well as taking on larger management challenges of organizing courses or working on collaborative science projects,» says Matthews.

GRE scores and undergraduate GPA don't predict students» future graduate school productivity, but reference letters from previous research advisers may provide clues about whether they are going to publish well, according to a story over at our Science Careers sister site about two papers published today in PLOS ONE.

The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, was led by Johannes Eichstaedt, a graduate student in the School of Arts & Science's Department of Psychology, and included H. Andrew Schwartz, a visiting assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Computer and Information Science; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sScience, was led by Johannes Eichstaedt, a graduate student in the School of Arts & Science's Department of Psychology, and included H. Andrew Schwartz, a visiting assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Computer and Information Science; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sScience's Department of Psychology, and included H. Andrew Schwartz, a visiting assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Computer and Information Science; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sScience's Department of Computer and Information Science; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sScience; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sScience's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sciencescience.

«You make both parts — the detectors and the photonic chip — through their best fabrication process, which is dedicated, and then bring them together,» explains Faraz Najafi, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and first author on the new paper.

The concept is described in a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet - Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering Alexander Slocum, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and POSCO Professor of Materials Science and Engineering W. Craig Carter, as well as postdoc Xinwei Chen, graduate student Brandon Hopkins, and four others.

When more is invested in science — a good thing — the ranks of graduate students and postdocs swell to meet the demand for temporary labor.

In fact, according to the report from the academies» National Research Council, there's no good evidence that students are any more likely to graduate from college with a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree or pursue a scientific career if they attend a specialty science and math school than a regular school.

Both as a graduate student and postdoc, Maryrose Franko took every opportunity to volunteer in science education which made her realize that «I have good people skills that I really enjoy using,» she says.

Each coalition member, the writers said, has also agreed to help graduate students and fellows better explore alternative career paths, improve mentoring, and work to improve diversity in the life sciences workforce.

According to the BEST report, students receiving a GEM fellowship have a smoother transition into graduate study and the science workforce.

«This would be based on the carbon footprint and energy efficiency difference between manufacturing regions, and would be a better market - and science - based solution than a solar panel tariff,» said Dajun Yue, a Northwestern graduate student in You's research group and lead author on the paper.

«In the future, such efforts could allow us to much better understand human - microbiome interactions, model malnutrition disorders and inflammatory diseases of the gut, and perform personalized drug testing,» said co-first author Alessio Tovaglieri, a Graduate Student at the Department of Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who performs his thesis work on Ingber's team.

Achieving ethnic, racial, and gender parity in the science pipeline will require measures that help white and minority graduate students, and their mentors, better understand the world they each live in, the panelists said.

Wendy Ingram, who co-founded a well - being and mental health peer support network when she was a graduate student at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, after a dear friend in her program died by suicide due to depression, agrees that «more academic institutions are taking steps to tackle mental health issues,» she writes in an email to Science Careers.

Of the two available models, a dual - degree program is probably the best approach for students interested in basic science, because the choices available for research training are likely to be wider and include more opportunities for basic science and bench research into molecular mechanisms, compared to graduate programs or postdoctoral fellowships linked to post-MD clinical training; the latter is more likely to be focused more on clinic - based studies.

«Bolstering a hidden population of an endangered species is better than starting a new population in the area,» said Ethan Kessler, a graduate student of natural resources and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois and a co-author of the study.

So, it's very important for politicians to understand the importance of science and technology, not because it's a good thing to talk about, but especially in an age of today where we are in a globalized economy, where competition is — I tell my students, if you can not work hard, by the time they will graduate, the jobs will be taken away — you have to constantly work hard and think creatively and engage yourselves in a way, in a globalized economy.

As one current example of the ongoing commitment to the training of clinician scientists, NIMH supports and collaborates with the Delaware Project on Clinical Science Training, which aims to create best practices for training psychology graduate students, interns, and post-doctoral fellows studying mental illnesses.

At past symposia, FoR worked to highlight some of the problems facing postdocs and graduate students, and started to define solutions but this year, together with Academics for the Future of Science and the MIT Graduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions specifically chosen to better define productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacygraduate students, and started to define solutions but this year, together with Academics for the Future of Science and the MIT Graduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions specifically chosen to better define productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacyGraduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions specifically chosen to better define productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacy skills.

participation in graduate - student summer schools in software - development skills and best practices for the computational molecular sciences;

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

U.S. Students Know What, But Not Why Science Insider, June 19, 2012 «The computer simulations offer NAEP a much better way to measure skills used by real scientists than do multiple - choice questions, says Chris Dede, a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Students must complete performance assessments (known as proficiencies) in six areas: English, social studies, science, math, creative arts, and art criticism, as well as in community service, in order to graduate.

The Risk and Prevention Program has been renamed Prevention Science and Practice (PSP) / Counseling C.A.S.. Although the curriculum and educational experience of students will not change, the new name, says program director Mandy Savitz - Romer, better reflects the integrated nature of the program and its mission to prepare graduates to improve the social, emotional, and academic outcomes of children and youth.

Starting with the high school class of 2018, Ohio will require students to score well on seven «End - of - Course» exams to graduate under its main graduation pathway - two in English, two in math, two social studies and one science.

«In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. colleges graduate 50 percent more students than are hired into those fields each year; of the computer science graduates not entering the IT workforce, 32 percent say it is because IT jobs are unavailable, and 53 percent say they found better job opportunities outside of IT occupations.»

The Program is designed to provide doctoral students in social science disciplines (especially Sociology, Political Science, and Psychology, though it is open to students in other departments as well) and in the Graduate School of Education with advanced training in state - of - the - art quantitative methods of discipline - based education policy anscience disciplines (especially Sociology, Political Science, and Psychology, though it is open to students in other departments as well) and in the Graduate School of Education with advanced training in state - of - the - art quantitative methods of discipline - based education policy anScience, and Psychology, though it is open to students in other departments as well) and in the Graduate School of Education with advanced training in state - of - the - art quantitative methods of discipline - based education policy analysis.

In an effort to help students deal with mounting college debt — as well as inspire those graduates to pursue a career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-- the Alfond Foundation announced this week a new student loan debt relief program for Maine graduates.

Internships for STEM underrepresented graduate and undergraduate students: The CINMS program offers paid internships to bilingual (Spanish - English) Graduate or Undergraduate students with preference to students of ethnicities not currently well represented in the Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)graduate and undergraduate students: The CINMS program offers paid internships to bilingual (Spanish - English) Graduate or Undergraduate students with preference to students of ethnicities not currently well represented in the Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)Graduate or Undergraduate students with preference to students of ethnicities not currently well represented in the Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) fields.

In pointing out that throwing out whatever data you want without a d & mn good reason is strictly verboten in science, «you thereby assume a position of authority» I'm just pointing out one of the many things that science graduate students have beaten into them during their «rites of passage».

Summary Graduate student in computer science at Cal Poly with good knowledge of software engineering concepts.

Education Bachelor of Science: Nursing 1998 Boston College School of Nursing Newton MA Certifications Current... as well as precepted new graduates and senior nursing students Staff RN on General Pediatric Unit / In